A new blog post from our buddy Ted Unangst, this time about a feature he recently removed from LibreSSL

The original commit message was just "decompress libressl" with no details - these are the missing details of that change

It talks about the different network layers where compression is applied and how code has to be refactored for that

"I might download a zip file (of png files!). The web server, if configured just wrong, can apply http compression to it. If it’s https, the TLS layer can compress it again. If I’m using an SSH tunnel, that can compress it. If it’s travelling over IPsec, it can get compressed again. It can get compressed again by IP compression. How many layers of compression do we really need?"

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